The Young Big Bill Broonzy (1928-1935) (1928)

About this title: Big Bill Broonzy was one of the few country blues musicians of the '20s and '30s to find success when the music evolved into an electric, urbanized form. From his initial sides with Paramount in 1928, he followed the music's development closely. Switching to electric guitar and adding drums to his music in the late 1930s, he helped pave the way for the Chicago bluesmen that followed him. Even though his music continued to contain echoes of his rural background, Broonzy's reversion to a folk-blues style (popular amongst white audiences) in the 1950s was viewed by purists as an inauthentic ... read more

Tracks:

1. Long Tall Mama [Broonzy/May]
2. Mississippi River Blues [Broonzy]
3. Saturday Night Rub [Broonzy]
4. How You Want It Done? [Broonzy]
5. Stove Pipe Stomp [Broonzy]
6. Hokum Stomp [Broonzy]
7. I Can't Be Satisfied [Broonzy]
8. Brown Skin Shuffle [Broonzy]
9. Eagle Riding Papa [Dorsey]
10. Starvation Blues [Broonzy]
11. Hip Shakin' Strut [Dorsey]
12. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down [Broonzy]
13. Skoodle Do Do [Traditional]
14. Banker's Blues

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.